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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-10-07

10y virtue or On execution 10 me d.
- rectcd from the Clerk Of the Dubois
Circuit Court, will expose 1t public
sale % The highest bidder, on
SATURDAY, THE 29TH DAT or Ocro-
BEK. A. ID. 1887.
between the hours or 10 O'Clock .. N.
and = o'clock p. M. Of said day, ~ the
door Of the Courthouse in the town OF
Jasper, Dubois county. Indiana, the rents
and profits for term not exceeding
seven years, Of the following described
real estate, situate in Dubois County.
Indiana. to-wit:
The undivided one-half part Of The
southwest quarter Of the south-easI
quarter OF section No. nineteen (I9l
township two ~, soush range No five
I(5) west. and the undivided one-hsIf part
% the north-hsIf Of the northwest quar-
ter OF section No. twenty-nins (39), IN
said township and range.
l Also, lots Nos. two hundred and thir.
Nv (230), two hundred and twenty -iouI
(s24) and one hundred and seventeen
ltll7). al IN the town Of Jasper, said
county, according 10 the plat Of said
town. ALSO the southeast quarter o
1.-THE northeast quarter Or section No
twenty -four CA, in township No. tws
.(2h south range No. four ~ west. AMI
On failure 10 realize the fnIi amount 0
Judgment, interest and cost. will - III
] same time and place expose q publ
! sale the fee simple Of said real estate.
u Taken q the property or Brun0 Buett
Iner q the suit of John fIucbner.
Il Said sale will be made without an
relief whatever from valuation or %
pyaisement laws.
y FERDINAND SCHNEIDER.
N Sheriff Dubois County.
TRAYLos b HUxrER, Att'ys for Pl'f
Oct. =, 1887 Sw. IN. & 90.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-10-07

Wheat sowing il being pushed vigor-
onsIy; the bulk Of wheat will be put IN
the ground this week. The acreage
will be large this fall. but We can guess
better what the yield viii Be after the
crop il threshed.
Columbia township schools began
their winters work last Monday, and
are al supplied with good teachers.
Joseph II. Nicholson was in town last
Friday shaking hands with friends, and
shaking his sides laughing 81 others on
whom be got on bis jokes.
Columbia has full supply Of 'Squires
again. Squire Moore returned from
Kansas last Friday, where be had been
tor some time visiting relatives and
looking ct the new country.
The young man that left his wife and
two little children. two weeks ago, has
become fully convinced that be cant
support himself, and has returned, and
liz now trying 10 coax HE wife to live
with him, and provide him food and
raiment
Most OF our folks attended meeting 81
the Regular Bapiist church last Sunday
| liked the preacher better than they did
some Of bis doctrine
CouRr NEws-The assembling Of the
last grand jury caused the good people
or HilIhsm 70 donate go 70 the school
funds.
I The State Of Indiana on relation Of
| Rachel Tabor W. VIM 7. Nicholson
Judgment for defendant Warrant H.
sued on 18th; the constable and two
deputies worked one day and night 70
arrest him, but give Il mp and returned
the writ indorsed mot found Tome
father hired the pettifog2er 20 defend.
\ Frank s<ked for . continuance and the
court granted IT, SubpGna issued Tor
defendants witnesses; court adjourned
until 10 O'Clock on the 18th. The con-
stable forgot TO discharge his deputies
They mistook the three Tabor women
for the prisoner. Notwithstanding
both OF the officers were married men
and anxious TO 60 home 10 their FAM
lies, they closely guarded the women 81
i night, and until the trial was over
These deputies kept their prisoners y
the school house, aud their bed was th'
soft side or poplar blank, and the dep
uties went part Of the way with III
women TO look for more shawls. snt
when trial was had Rachel would no
! pay Lawyer Pugh i've dollars 10 prose
cnte her case. She ought 10 have beef
defeated. but the Lord blessed her will
= bouncing big boy the night Of the 29th
have heard Of seven months babies
but this IL six and half month's baby
and the little fellow Il born without
. daddy-a rare circumstance.
ZrPrY Coox.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-10-07

JAs~rx has about so population. u
si,u>t~d On The hanks o. The beautiful
rasok~ river. AMI therefore slways has :
enre snpplv o. ~assr Nv sinking veIls %
= level vssh the bed Of the creek. The
sown 4 one mil. uiic from Ess. %
West. bv mile and . half Sorfh and
south. I, y The terminus Of the Evsns-
ville ani jasper branch Of the l.. +. >
81 L. ~. and hss three trains each wsv
ssch Day. its surroun 1ed hv splendid
agricultural ccnrfrv. furnishing large
snrrlns Of prot,sicus 4 cheap rate.
Lots IN the town can hs purchased q
reasonable price 4 i underlaid By two
rood workable reins of coal. from which
coal 4 furnished TO families a. : cts. :
bnshel. and % manufactures # cheaper
r>see By Tire various mine owners The
vincrnue~ and New Albany railroad Il
nnder contract 70 be built 70 the town,
thus giving Il another railroad outlet A
Cas- and Mineral company Il organized
which promises soon 10 develop natural
rs or oil the prospects for both Of
which are 6sttering. II II unqnestions'
bly, one Of the best points for manu'
lActuring Of any place in the West, and
ils citizens will extend hearty welcome
70 all manufacturing enterprises Il
nov has II steam engines in its various
Industrial enterprises. embracing stave
healing and barrel factory, planning
nils and sash and door factories. spoke
factories. 2 roller process -four mills,
rye and corn mill. heading factory,
ssw mill and Hath factory, > machine and
engine shops, wagon factory, ! fur
niture factory. and l brewery, beside
numerous other Industries which do no
use steam power. 1t IL destined err
long to Be considerable city, and q
workers who will assist 10 make II sucl
ere cordially invited TO come now an'
help push. and make part OF the profits
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-10-07

~ nnn Cords Of White and Burr
IDaODO Oak Stave Blocks Wanted
AZ my mill In Jasper. for which ] will
paw from 400 10 . 100 per cord. ac-
cording ~ grade. l. N. RAMBO.
Sent. 10. 1857 3m.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-10-07
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-10

of the best modern yachts, it is lighted
with electricity, and he has an arrange
ment of wires in the rigging that makes
it possible for him to illumine the entire
craft of an evening till it shines and
sparkles with variegated fame and jets
of fire in way that would put Aladdin's
tabled palace to shame. This club has
regatta every year in which the boats
race from Larchmont near New York city
to New London. The prizes consist of
four cups, three based upon the superb
GRITTY of the yachts according to their
making the distance under a system of
time allowance, by which the bigger boats
give the smaller ones long starts; and
the fourth is given to the yacht that makes
the best time irrespective of allowance.
jay Gould's ATLANTA always gets the lat
ter cup, and the best of the three others
as well. 1t remains to be seen whether
he can retain his superiority against the
Alva, but it seems probable that he will,
for the Atalanta was built entirely for
speed, Gould ordering that considerations
of comfort should be secondary, while
Vanderbilt had convenience rather than
racing in view when he gave the speciti-
cations for his boat. The Alva, by the
way, cost over three quarters of million
dollars, pretty sum to expend for a
toy.
Steam yachting as a pastime was
fathered by clergyman; and although it
is probable that eventually it would
have found it's place as the exclusive
sport of the wealthy, yet Rev. John A.
Aspinwall may be considered historically
responsible for its present growth The
first steam yacht in the country was built
by his father and called Fire Fly. 1t was
about fifty feet long and constructed
originally on a curious design which
made the propelling instrument paddle
wheel working in the very middle of the
boat in a water-tight box. This idea
proved failure and the design had to be
modified. The interest aroused by the
Fire Fly set young John Aspinwall to
work, and although boy in his teens
he transformed f1at-bottomed boat into
steam yacht, having as an engine con-
trivance that generated steam by the Use
of alcohol lamps. This was by no means
the last boat built by Mr.. Aspinwall, and
as he made year after year better and
better craft public interest in steam
yachts increased. Jacob Lorillard was
ore of the first wealthy men to adopt the
new form of recreation, and since 1868 he
has had constructed for his use as many
as eighteen yachts. From time to time
he has sold the old ones, rarely using
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-10
PLAYFUL SQUIRRELS.

Remarkable Pair of Frolicsome Pets
and Their Antics.
Two tame gray squirrels are the favorite
pets of an animal lover on Franklin avenue,
Scranton, Pa The squirrels run about the
house like two kittens, and are obedient to
their master every time he tells them to go
to their cage He often takes them about
town with him, to their apparent pleasure
and satisfaction. Whenever he tells them
that they can go along, they skip up hislegs
and crawl into the pockets of his sack coat,
where they nestle down until he enters q
store or saloon. Then he orders them tc
come out, and tn ey hurry from his pockets
and caper about the room until he gets
ready to leave. Their antics and their ODE
dience interest and amuse everybody who
sees them. Each squirrel has his own par
ticular pocket to get into, and they have
been so well trained that neither ever tries to
get into the pocket that belongs to the other.
When the gentleman wears a heavy over
coat, he sometimes permits both of them tc
cuddle down together, when they appear tc
be very happy indeed.-Pttsburg Dispatch.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-10
AN EARTHLY PARADISE.
The Beautiful Dwelling of the Artist, Alma
Tadema-His Pictures.

The Beautiful Dwelling of the Artist, Alma
Tadema-His Pictures.
Among the American ladies in London is
Mrs. Louisa Chandler Moulton, who writes
l have found the earthly Paradise in st.
Johns Wood-the new house of Alma Ia
dema-that charming house, surrounded by
its beguiling garden with delicious winding
ways. Inside the house is full of unexpected
charms-a fountain here, a conservatory
there, graceful arch in one place. nook
for quiet tete-a-tete in another. CHANGED
on gala day-some of the Indian princes
were there and brilliant company besides.
There was delicious music in the studio,
where, on sort of raised dais, stands the
ated by Mr.. Alma Tadema himself. A few
of Tadema's perfect pictures were on view,
and was especially struck by a lovely one
of child and by portrait, now in progress,
of Mrs. Frank Millett-the most fascinating
portrait that could be imagined. 1t is
wonderful household, this of Alma Tadema.
I wonder if in any other family so much
genius is concentrated? What Mr.. Tademas
place is as an artist the whole world knows.
His wife, distinctly one of the most beauti-
full and charming women in London, is also
an admirable artist, and one daughter has
excellent pictures in both the academy and
the Grosvenor, while the other has attained a
brilliant success with her first novel, "Love's
Martyr" and is now writing second.
Genius seems to be contagious in this house
hold. The house itself, with its royal-look-
ing staircases of polished brass and with its
original and picturesque architecture, is OF
Mr.. Tadema's own planning. and is the sue
cessful embodiment of the artists conception.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-10

But if man really wants in a modest
way the fun of steam yachting, wants to
skim over the water whether the wind is
fair or not, and be sure of getting home
to dinner on time, he can indulge that
fancy for sum that it is really possible
to talk about without a fainting spell. A
steam launch is little open craft in which
the engine is upright and not housed
over. An awning is usually employed
to shelter passengers from the weather.
Launches from thirty to forty feet long
will carry comfortably dozen persons,
and there will be plenty of room for the
storing of such provisions and utensils as
are required for days outing for the en-
tire party. A launch twenty-one feet in
length will accommodate in the same
way five or six people very comfortably.
The latter size can be bought for about
$500. There is, of course, little opportu-
nifty for the expenditure of money on
craft of this kind in ornamentation. The
launch is essentially a boat for use.
They frequently attain a considerable
rate of speed, and they can stand deal
of heavy weather. Almost any man can
learn in few days enough about boilers
and machinery to run launch and thus
dispense with the services of a crew and
engineer. A license is required of all
who navigate steam craft, but it is not
difficult matter to obtain one if the
owner knows the little required about
steam and engines.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-10

1t may be meat, fish, fowl, vegetables or
sweetmeats, or any two, three or four
of those things mixed. Fastidious per-
sons sometimes object to lyacEi because of
the mystery surrounding it. They are
wrong, for 1t generally tastes we'll.
The corn dough-balls were soft, sticky,
cold inside, heavy as lead and little
sour. I did not like them. But those
very familiar hens were so fond of them
that they flew up on the table constantly
and pecked pieces from beside our plates
and even out of our hands. One hen had
quite comical appearance. To divert
her attention from the subject of "set-
ting" they had poked long tail-feather
through her nostrils. 1t stuck out three
or four inches on each side of her beak,
and looking at it seemed to have made
her cross-eyed, so that when she snapped
at dough-ball she was liable to dip into
the san coche and go away hurriedly,
shouting Fire p in chicken lingo, only to
return for another attempt two minutes
later. The best bread we had was plan
tains, baked without their skins in the
ashes-not at all bad substitute.
After dinner we had delicious coffee,
strong and fine. The natives buy their
coffee unhulled generally, fresh from
the plantations, half roast it, club off
the bulls, reroast and grind it, and no.
body anywhere has any better coffee.
While we slipped the fragrant decoction
couple of wild 'paraonlatas," or Ven
ezuelan mocking-birds, perched upon
the branches overhead, unheeding the
noise below, sang exquisitely.
Pope, humble servitor of the family,
brought up from little bay about an
eighth of mile distant a barrow full of
shellfish of all conceivable sorts, sizes,
shapes and colors. There must have
been forty or fifty varieties, from little
univalves not bigger than shirt button
up to huge horny conchs as big as a
mans head. All were dumped together
into large kettle and boiled for nearly
an hour, while we smoked and slipped
coffee. Then they were heaped upon
the table before us and we picked and
poked out the contents of the shells
with pins, sticks, forks and knives,
occasionally smashing the ones that
were hard to get at. 1t was i'm
possible to determine which of them
were most unspeakably vile. Each
in turn seemed more utterly execrable
than those that had preceded it, Per-
haps nice discriminating palate migtt
have awarded to the pearl oysters the
palm for intoleratle badness, for they
combined the extreme saltiness, bitter
ness, iodine smell, sandiness and flabbi-
ness that were the severally distinguish
ing characteristics of number of others.
AS for the conchs, they seemed to be
made of India rubber, and could by no
possibility be chewed. The natives said
that few days boiling would soften
them somewhat.
The finale of our tropical feast was a
huge pile of shaved cocoa-nut meats
rolled in melted brown sugar, and thor
oughly coated with it in cooling-exces-
sively and cloyingly sweet, but pleas
antly favored. And we had new rum.
J. Fl. CONNOLLY.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-10

We were anchored in the great bay be-
tween Isla Margarita and the mainland
of Venezuela. Before us was Coche-
all sand and salt-behind us Cubagua,
like Coche, except that cactii, thorny
shrubs, goats and the ruins of an ancient
solutely nothing to do but to allow to
sink deep into our souls a realizing sense
that our treasure-hunting expedition
was "wild-goose chase"
One day Cubagua fisherman, from
whom bought lot of fish for my crew,
varied the dreary monotony of my exist
ence with an invitation to dine with him
and his family. They were not only
fishers, but manufacturers. In the proper
season they made a sort of cocoanut-oil
soap, for use in salt water, that always
looked blue-molded and smelled worse
than asafetida.
Their dwelling was in two parts; a
wet-weather place, stone-walled, well
rooted and without windows, where the
smell reconciled one to the darkness and
the darkness rendered one Indifferent to
the smell; and a dry-weather place, clay
floored and covered with thick mat of
dried branches to exclude the sun. In
wet years they could not live in this lat
ter part of the house more than fifty
weeks out of the fifty-two, but when l
was there it had been the family home for
almost two years. There they pursued
their household avoc atoms by day and
swung their hammocks at night, and
there it was that we took dinner. In
the centre of it was table, the legs
of which were driven deep into the clay
floor. At one end was raised hearth, with
some embers glowing upon it, before
which, in sloping position, stood a
stone trough. A young girl, with very
beautiful eyes, dressed in something like
a short Mother Hubbard" of white mus
lin-without trimmings, belt or founces,
however-rubbed up and down in the
trough big stone, MASKING and grind
ing grains of corn, already lye-soaked to
soften and peel them, to make the bread
for our dinner Half dozen hens flew
up to the trough, alternately, snatched
mouthfuls of the bruised grain and kept
up continuous cackling. When the
girl had handful mashed fine enough
she made # into a fattened ball
and set 1t up on edge near the
embers to warm and get ashes and
the smell of wood smoke on it..
Even that, however, promised some
thing better than arepa, the common
bread of the country, which is made of the
grated fibrous part of the yucca root
after the poison has been soaked out of
it-but which can be made just as well of
any very hard sawdust. Anybody with
quartz-crusher jaws and tin throat
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-10

could eat arepa and think it might be
worse.
Five NANCY, gaunt ours mixed them
selves among our legs, and had desultory
skirmishes with three lean but plucky
pigs that were on terms of great famil-
iarity with the family. Their frequent
combats were noisy, but the butting
matches between the pet fawn and two
sociable kids were quiet and unobjection-
able, except when somebody got tripped
up by them and fell over dog or two,
or pig.
The corn-grinding girls mother, who
sat all the time in strange sawbuck-
like chair not more than six inches from
the ground, told ten-year-old barefooted
boy to wash the dishes. He kicked pig
away from roofing among the breakfast
dishes, which were lying in corner, and
carried an armful of them down to the
beach, two rods away. First he rubbed
each one with handful of sand. Then
he took a pile of them between his arms
and waded out to his middle in the bay,
where he swung them to and fro in the
water to get rid of the sand. 1t was the
only time l ever saw anybody wade into
the dishpan to wash dishes. Finally he
set them up edgewise in the sun to dry.
The principal dish at table was a san
cOcle. A san cOche Is stew, and may be
made of fish, flesh or fowl. Sometimes
it is good, but generally it makes you
wish it had been made of one of the
other things. This one was of goat, and
was really the least offensive form in
which at-never-to-be-sufficie de
tested meat has ever been served to me-
There was so much garlic in it that no
taste of the goat was perceptible, and so
much ala fiendishly hot Chilli pepper
that one didn't notice the garlic par
ticularly. When one is sufficiently accus-
toned to the All to feel confidence that
it will not melt the gold filling in teeth,
1t becomes rather agreeable.
With the san c0che we had some superb
boiled yams-much better than any po-
tatoes | ever ate-and LydcES-I don't
know whether that word is rightly
spelled or not, for my Spanish diction
aries ignore it, but that is the way it
sounds. 1t is probably derived from ka,
a bundle. 1t signifies little bundle of
an ounce or two of some finely COM
minuted stuff, done up in bit of
plantain leaf and boiled. You never
know beforehand, and seldom after eat
ing it, what your lyacki is composed of
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-10
YIELDING TO CONVICTION.
A Texan Makes Restitution of DC, 800
Which He Acquired Dishonesty.

Texan Makes Restitution of Is, 800,
Which He Acquired Dishonesty.
At one of his Mortified meetings on Mon
day, Mr.. Moody, who was preaching about
Prayer" said: Man may pray like saint,
but fine has 81 in his pocket not acquired hon
estly, his prayer is a sham, and he must
make restitution if he expects ever to have
God hear his prayer" Thereupon mer-
chant from Dallas, Tex, rose in the audi
ence and told a story that emphasized this
point. He had, he said got dishonesty from
men in his business some $500, and had
built house with the money. Then Mr..
Moody happened along and preached ON this
subject of restitution and the merchant was
present. II heard you, " he said, pointing to
Mr.. Moody, land went out into the street
conscience stricken. l went straight home
and told my wife that we must sell that
house and restore the money. And we did.
We held an auction, and our carpets, our
laces, our furniture all left us, and with the
proceeds we made restitution" The man
then told how he and his wife started again
in life with nothing, and how he had pros
pered. His credit, his prosperity had never
been so good